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On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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Racial profiling is all they do. Lawless.
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Racial profiling is all they do. Lawless.
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This is about revenge, stay tuned.
She called herself a “battered housewife” because she tied her whole identity to Donald Trump and finally realized how abusive he’s always been.
Unfortunately, this isn’t goodbye, it’s a setup for her comeback swing.
She called herself a “battered housewife” because she tied her whole identity to Donald Trump and finally realized how abusive he’s always been.
Unfortunately, this isn’t goodbye, it’s a setup for her comeback swing.
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This is about revenge, stay tuned.
She called herself a “battered housewife” because she tied her whole identity to Donald Trump and finally realized how abusive he’s always been.
Unfortunately, this isn’t goodbye, it’s a setup for her comeback swing.
She called herself a “battered housewife” because she tied her whole identity to Donald Trump and finally realized how abusive he’s always been.
Unfortunately, this isn’t goodbye, it’s a setup for her comeback swing.
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Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
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WATCH: “During a period Epstein was facing more heat than ever, Bannon got even closer with him.”
@arimelber.bsky.social breaks down the cozy Bannon-Epstein relationship in the emails. Bannon even helped him with damage control re: the underage sex trafficking. MAGA’s ok with this?
@arimelber.bsky.social breaks down the cozy Bannon-Epstein relationship in the emails. Bannon even helped him with damage control re: the underage sex trafficking. MAGA’s ok with this?
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
WATCH: “During a period Epstein was facing more heat than ever, Bannon got even closer with him.”
@arimelber.bsky.social breaks down the cozy Bannon-Epstein relationship in the emails. Bannon even helped him with damage control re: the underage sex trafficking. MAGA’s ok with this?
@arimelber.bsky.social breaks down the cozy Bannon-Epstein relationship in the emails. Bannon even helped him with damage control re: the underage sex trafficking. MAGA’s ok with this?
Trump is only enamored by other men. He only uses women to up his street creds with his fellow men. He only seeks to impress other men (never women, he typically shows disdain for women) and is only impressed by men.
Trump is incapable of resisting charm, (male) charisma, and - most importantly - celebrity. He has an unquenchable desire to be near it, has been chasing it his whole life.
That's mostly it. Forget all the "He's a populist!" bullshit from both the centrist commentariat and the anti-liberal Left.
That's mostly it. Forget all the "He's a populist!" bullshit from both the centrist commentariat and the anti-liberal Left.
Every article by a 'savvy' political analyst reads like a focus group transcript with a low-information voter.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Trump is only enamored by other men. He only uses women to up his street creds with his fellow men. He only seeks to impress other men (never women, he typically shows disdain for women) and is only impressed by men.
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Shawn McCreesh is at the New York Times because AG Sulzberger WANTS people like McCreesh.
McCreesh is the guy who wrote the gauzy piece about Epstein’s New York.
McCreesh is the guy who wrote the gauzy piece about Epstein’s New York.
Oh wow, you weren't kidding pagesix.com/2025/08/29/s...
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Reality is just ripping off arrested development jokes now
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reality is just ripping off arrested development jokes now
Stephen Miller needs to spend the rest of his life locked up, pardon or no pardon. This man needs to face the most serious accountability there is.
Gift link: wapo.st/43FXQfO
detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Stephen Miller needs to spend the rest of his life locked up, pardon or no pardon. This man needs to face the most serious accountability there is.
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"JP Morgan recently calculated that the tech industry must draw an extra $650 billion in revenue every year — nearly double Google’s total sales in 2024 — for AI investments forecast through 2030 to earn a modest 10 percent return."
Analysis | Are we in an AI bubble? Eight charts will help you decide.
Soaring investment in artificial intelligence has triggered warnings about a risky financial bubble. These charts show reasons to be calm — or concerned.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"JP Morgan recently calculated that the tech industry must draw an extra $650 billion in revenue every year — nearly double Google’s total sales in 2024 — for AI investments forecast through 2030 to earn a modest 10 percent return."
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Science is not something you can command. It is something you must respect. And when a leader treats settled evidence like a political inconvenience, it is not courage — it is negligence on a national scale.
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Science is not something you can command. It is something you must respect. And when a leader treats settled evidence like a political inconvenience, it is not courage — it is negligence on a national scale.
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We’ve seen this story before: undermine vaccines, and outbreaks follow. Replace science with personal will, and people suffer. Public health collapses not because the evidence changed, but because the leadership did.
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
We’ve seen this story before: undermine vaccines, and outbreaks follow. Replace science with personal will, and people suffer. Public health collapses not because the evidence changed, but because the leadership did.
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The truth continues to exist whether you accept it or not.
Vaccines prevent disease. Vaccines save lives. This is not a matter of “orthodoxy.” It is the result of consistent, reproducible scientific evidence collected across continents and generations.
Vaccines prevent disease. Vaccines save lives. This is not a matter of “orthodoxy.” It is the result of consistent, reproducible scientific evidence collected across continents and generations.
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
The truth continues to exist whether you accept it or not.
Vaccines prevent disease. Vaccines save lives. This is not a matter of “orthodoxy.” It is the result of consistent, reproducible scientific evidence collected across continents and generations.
Vaccines prevent disease. Vaccines save lives. This is not a matter of “orthodoxy.” It is the result of consistent, reproducible scientific evidence collected across continents and generations.
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🧵 The claim that a political leader “personally instructed” the CDC to abandon its scientific conclusions about vaccines is more than troubling — it is a direct attack on the foundations of evidence-based medicine.
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
🧵 The claim that a political leader “personally instructed” the CDC to abandon its scientific conclusions about vaccines is more than troubling — it is a direct attack on the foundations of evidence-based medicine.
Where are all the libertarian shills now? Where were they over abortion rights and women's bodily autonomy? It's crickets. Always crickets. Don't ever buy their libertarian bullshit. It's all just racism with them.
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Where are all the libertarian shills now? Where were they over abortion rights and women's bodily autonomy? It's crickets. Always crickets. Don't ever buy their libertarian bullshit. It's all just racism with them.
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I *think* the attempt to speedrun authoritarianism has failed. The new acute danger is greater political violence (Trump calling for hangings, etc). But the concerted danger is down the line, when MAGA realizes the bill for all this corruption will come due. www.offmessage.net/p/maga-disar...
MAGA Disarray And The Accumulated Debt Of Corruption
They'd bring America down rather than face accountability, but accountability is not optional.
www.offmessage.net
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I *think* the attempt to speedrun authoritarianism has failed. The new acute danger is greater political violence (Trump calling for hangings, etc). But the concerted danger is down the line, when MAGA realizes the bill for all this corruption will come due. www.offmessage.net/p/maga-disar...
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year
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Both Democrat and Republican parties in shambles over a guy that is just genuinely nice, like vampires fleeing sunlight
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Both Democrat and Republican parties in shambles over a guy that is just genuinely nice, like vampires fleeing sunlight
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In a typical move, Donald Trump attacks our Somali community because he can’t think of anything else to do on a Friday night. That’s who he is, but it’s not who we are.
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
In a typical move, Donald Trump attacks our Somali community because he can’t think of anything else to do on a Friday night. That’s who he is, but it’s not who we are.
Selfish, self-centered narcissists, all of them.
Why do they give?
“If you’re a billionaire, you want to stay a billionaire,” John Catsimatidis told @bethreinhard.bsky.social. “I worry about America and the way of life we have.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
“If you’re a billionaire, you want to stay a billionaire,” John Catsimatidis told @bethreinhard.bsky.social. “I worry about America and the way of life we have.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
How billionaires took over American politics
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Selfish, self-centered narcissists, all of them.
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The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.
Imagine if they had paid that in taxes instead we could have nice things.
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 22, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Imagine if they had paid that in taxes instead we could have nice things.